•Republican activist and former presidential campaign chairman Jeffrey Claude Bartleson was arrested on charges of sexually molesting a 5-year old
boy.

•Republican activist and former chairman of the Christian County Republicans Royce Fessenden pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree child
molestation and one count of second-degree statutory sodomy.

•Republican parole board officer and former legislator George Christian (Chris) Ortloff pleaded guilty to attempting to lure 11- and 12-year-old
girls to have sex with him.

•Republican chief of staff Eric Feltner pleaded guilty to showing pornography to a 13-year old girl.

•Republican presidential campaign official Matthew Joseph Elliott was convicted of sexual exploitation of a child.

•Republican city councilman John Bryan killed himself after police began investigating allegations that he had molested three girls, including two
of his adopted daughters, ages 12 and 15.

•Republican legislator Ted Klaudt was charged with raping girls under the age of 16.

•Republican city councilman Joseph Monteleone Jr. was found guilty of fondling underage girls.

•Republican congressional aide Jeffrey Nielsen was arrested for having sex with a 14-year old boy.

•Republican County Commissioner Patrick Lee McGuire surrendered to police after allegedly molesting girls between the ages of 8 and 13.
•Republican prosecutor Larry Corrigan was arrested for soliciting sex from 13-year old girls.
•Republican Mayor Jeffrey Kyle Randall was sentenced to 275 days in jail for molesting two boys -- ages ten and 12 -- during a six-year period.
•Republican County Board Candidate Brent Schepp was charged with molesting a 14-year old girl and killed himself three days later.
•Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after "sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year
old boy.
•Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times newspaper pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from a 13-year old girl on
the internet.
•Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.
•Republican County Constable Larry Dale Floyd pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting sex from an 8-year old girl. Floyd has repeatedly won
elections for Denton County, Texas, constable.
•Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation.
•Republican Party leader Bobby Stumbo was arrested for having sex with a 5-year old boy.
•Republican petition drive manager Tom Randall pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 14, one of them the daughter of an associate
in the petition business.
•Republican County Chairman Armando Tebano pleaded guilty to fondling a 14-year-old girl.
•Republican teacher and former city councilman John Collins pleaded guilty to sexually molesting 13 and 14 year old girls.
•Republican campaign worker Mark Seidensticker is a convicted child molester.
•Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8- and 10-year old girls.
•Republican Mayor Tom Adams was arrested for distributing child pornography over the internet.
•Republican Mayor John Gosek was arrested on charges of soliciting sex from two 15-year old girls.
•Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
•Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17.
•Republican Committeeman John R. Curtain was charged with molesting a teenage boy and unlawful sexual contact with a minor.
•Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida.
•Republican zoning supervisor, Boy Scout leader and Lutheran church president Dennis L. Rader pleaded guilty to performing a sexual act on an
11-year old girl he murdered.
•Republican anti-abortion activist Nicholas Morency pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer and offering a bounty to anybody
who murders an abortion doctor.
•Republican campaign consultant Tom Shortridge was sentenced to three years probation for taking nude photographs of a 15-year old girl.
•Republican racist pedophile and United States Senator Strom Thurmond had sex with a 15-year old black girl which produced a child.
•Republican pastor Mike Hintz, whom George W. Bush commended during the 2004 presidential campaign, surrendered to police after admitting to a
sexual affair with a female juvenile.
•Republican legislator Peter Dibble pleaded no contest to having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl.
•Republican advertising consultant Carey Lee Cramer was sentenced to six years in prison for molesting two 8-year old girls, one of whom appeared in
an anti-Gore television commercial.
•Republican fundraiser Lawrence E. King, Jr. organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
•Republican lobbyist Craig J. Spence organized child sex parties at the White House during the 1980s.
•Republican Congressman Donald "Buz" Lukens was found guilty of having sex with a female minor and sentenced to one month in jail.
•Republican fundraiser Richard A. Delgaudio was found guilty of child porn charges and paying two teenage girls to pose for sexual photos.
•Republican activist Mark A. Grethen convicted on six counts of sex crimes involving children.
•Republican campaign chairman Randal David Ankeney pleaded guilty to attempted sexual assault on a child and was arrested again five years later on
the same charge.
•Republican Congressman Dan Crane had sex with a female minor working as a congressional page.
•Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter.
•Republican Judge Ronald C. Kline pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer.
•Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar.
•Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped.
•Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. "Republican Marty"), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual
activity with an underage girl and one count of delivering the drug '___'.
•Republican legislative aide Howard L. Brooks was charged with molesting a 12-year old boy and possession of child pornography.
•Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the
allegations were reported in the media.

•Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded a return to traditional values, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for
permission to perform oral sex on him.

•Republican talk show host Jon Matthews pleaded guilty to exposing his genitals to an 11 year old girl.

•Republican anti-gay activist Earl "Butch" Kimmerling was sentenced to 40 years in prison for molesting an 8-year old girl after he attempted to
stop a gay couple from adopting her.
•Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison.
•Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl.
•Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy.

•Republican legislator Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e.
exposing himself to children).

•Republican anti-abortion activist John Allen Burt was found guilty of molesting a 15-year old girl.
•Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child.
•Republican activist John Butler was charged with criminal sexual assault on a teenage girl.
•Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters.
•Republican Councilman and former Marine Jack W. Gardner was convicted of molesting a 13-year old girl.
•Republican County Commissioner Merrill Robert Barter pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual contact and assault on a teenage boy.
•Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison.
•Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in federal
prison and fined $18,000.
•Republican parole board officer and former Colorado state representative, Larry Jack Schwarz, was fired after child pornography was found in his
possession.
•Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys
and girls over the internet.
•Republican city councilman Mark Harris, who is described as a "good military man" and "church goer," was convicted of repeatedly having sex
with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
•Republican businessman Jon Grunseth withdrew his candidacy for Minnesota governor after allegations surfaced that he went swimming in the nude with
four underage girls, including his daughter.
•Republican campaign worker, police officer and self-proclaimed reverend Steve Aiken was convicted of having sex with two underage girls.
•Republican director of the "Young Republican Federation" Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in
prison.
•Republican president of the New York City Housing Development Corp. Russell Harding pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography on his computer.
•Republican benefactor of conservative Christian groups, Richard A. Dasen Sr., was found guilty of raping a 15-year old girl. Dasen, 62, who is
married with grown children and several grandchildren, has allegedly told police that over the past decade he paid more than $1 million to have sex
with a large number of young women.
•Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing
information about the anti-American insurgency. See excerpt of one prisoner's report here and his full report
here

Go ahead. I'll just be back to say "neener neener neener" when it inevitably happens in the future. As it is this generation engages is sex at an
early age, many not even being older than middle school.

And if a 16 year old can have sex with a 17 year old why cant 17 or 16 year old do it with an 18 year old? If someone mentally retarded can give
consent, can a really mentally mature child or teenager give consent? It will happen in the future and you will see it with your own eyes if you don't
die before it happens. The future generation will either allow for pedophilia or lower the age of sexual adulthood as they get more and more liberated
sexually.

Go ahead. I'll just be back to say "neener neener neener" when it inevitably happens in the future. As it is this generation engages is sex at an
early age, many not even being older than middle school.

So you hope that pedophillia becomes normal so you can "neener neener" me? Oddly there is nothing I hope for that results in pedophillia but we all
have different goals. I am actually more worried that the age of consent will continue to go up as it has been.

In reality, I see neither scenario becoming reality. You are the only one hoping pedophillia becomes normal and just to be correct. Weird.

And if a 16 year old can have sex with a 17 year old why cant 17 or 16 year old do it with an 18 year old?

They can. That depends entirely on the state they are in. Lobby your state government if you want it lowered across the board.

It will happen in the future and you will see it with your own eyes if you don't die before it happens. The future generation will either
allow for pedophilia or lower the age of sexual adulthood as they get more and more liberated sexually.

A proposal prohibiting defense contractor involvement in human trafficking for forced prostitution and labor was drafted by the Pentagon last
summer, but five defense lobbying groups oppose key provisions and a final policy still appears to be months away, according to those involved and
Defense Department records.

Ted Gunderson, former FBI, exposes the involvement of the CIA in these rings.

I am gratefull to the OP for giving us some new information. However the intent behind the OP was to attack the liberals; and connect Liberals to
Marxists via a feat of suspect mental gymnastics (which beggars belief). Despite highly eloquent and considered responses to highlight the errors of
reasoning inherent in the author's stance the author continues in their chosen path.

Fine I respect his right to do so.

However I cannot continue in this dog and pony show therefore I am out.

If y'all haven't read The Committee of 300, I suggest you do. This sexual behavior is all part of the "committee's" plan for our future. The book
is scare you. So much of what I've read is happening today!

Nothing will ever get done if we try to weed out the rotten fruit from the ripe. With something this sinister there is not enough time and children
our being robbed of their innocence.Okay if there were people at a party playing darts w a newborn baby would you just go into another room and turn a
blind eye and say hey they're not so bad or would you kick ass leave and call police..Right is right bad is bad and you might be on a ship of fools.

I am not religious at all never been to chuch never baptised but even to me it seems as if these are all evil satanic agendas to pollute the world it
just really really points to that..It is sooo clear DONT TOUCH KIDS YOU FILTHY PEDOS..Good people would never accept any of this or other yup liberal
agendas or even listen to demons try to justify it.So are you evil or very very confused or have a brain disorder.Look into satanism its all about
sexual liberation. Liberals are doing Satans work under the false guise of liberation freedom and anarchy.

I don't hope for it. It will happen and I will say "neener neener" just to be a dick about it and rub it in your faces. Where did you read that I HOPE
it will be true? I'm just stating that it WILL be true due to oversexualization of children, who will also grow and be the ones to write the laws.
There's nothing you or I can do about it, because western civilization has entered the post-modernist phase.

Let me guess: You have never entered a thread on "Catholics are pedophiles" and attacked the OP in the same way.

Am I right?

Guess how I knew....

Ah, good. Now we are getting somewhere.

No. I never entered a thread that said Catholics are pedophiles, because nobody has ever made a thread saying "Catholics are Pedophiles".

There have been threads about Priests committing acts of child sexual abuse. There have been threads about the Pope's and the Vatican's seeming
reticence about these acts.

But to come forth and say "Catholics are Pedophiles", is making an erroneous assertion, slanderous, calumniousm, and casting what would be improper
and vile aspersions.

This would be accusing members of the Catholic faith, our friends, co-workers, and fellow ATS members of
committing heinous acts.

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All I want to get you to see is that Pedophilia is an extremely driving force within that population. Sexuality is a very strong drive within human
beings, and when all that energy is directed towards children, it can be particularly damaging. Among mental health practitioners, it is among one of
the most difficult areas to find effective treatment.

Pedophiles have a tendency to place themselves in jobs and activities that lead them to be around children, their targets. They might become boy
scout leaders, teachers,coaches, volunteers at youth centers. They might become Priests. They might form Pornography rings, or develop groups.

Would they like for sex with children to become commonplace and legal? I'm sure they would. We might expect to further see such groups emerging who
are proponents of this.

But we must not lose sight of the face of what they are, and who and where they are. They might be democrats. They might be republicans. They might
be catholics, and they might be baptists. They might be black, white, male, female.
They might try to use one of those titles to further and justify their acts.

A few years back I participated in an investigation of a boy scout leader who had molested 13 of his troop members. Do you think it would be
appropriate to make a thread entitled "Boy Scout Leaders are Pedophiles". ?
To this day I am unware of his political affiliation, or his religious beliefs. It doesn't matter. All that mattered was the fact that he was a
pedophile.

You say that I am only attacking the messenger, and perhaps I have a little. But you have added your very thinly veiled beliefs to what was already a
propagandized article.

There is nothing "progressive" about child abuse. It has been around for centuries, and will, I expect, remain, and probably increase in numbers
and frequency. If the pedophiles have their way, it will at some point become socially acceptable.

But no. There is not one of the big "political" groups, such as liberals or conservatives, who as a whole endorse child abuse. But there might be
perpetrators of child abuse within those groups.

Please people... just ignore the word "Liberal" in the title, and we have a crucial topic to discuss.

Though the word "elite" is very misleading, and should probably be replaced by "vile people in positions of wealth and power".

As a few have pointed out earlier (and thank you for it!) there really does appear to be an organized system for human trafficking and child
molestation that exists, is protected at the highest levels and is worldwide.

This has nothing to do with any political ideology. PERIOD!

It is a very important topic to me, but one that is difficult to discuss during family a get together!

My humble opinion is that growing up in vast wealth and social positions which place some "above the law" lead to perversion of the most hideous
kind. These people (and I use the term loosely) need to go to extremes to get their "kicks", and lose any moral and ethical boundaries in the
way.

As another astute contributor pointed out, there are hundreds of thousands of unsolved missing children cases every year, and every time a serious
case of organized pedophilia among the rich and powerful is exposed, it "mysteriously" disappears with little or no criminal investigation.

These are true terrorists, and the resources being used to fight terrorism should be pointed at them!

1. You cannot say The liberal elite are child molesters and pedophiles just because a group of seriously misguided individuals also lean toward that
political philosophy. Otherwise I can say "The Catholic Church exists to molest young boys"

2. I went to a very right wing conservative military academy here in the US for high school. It is well known around the world. In my 3 years there,
I knew of 2 cases of children being raped. Both were cases where an older kid, high school senior, was with a 7th or 8th grader. Oddly enough both
times the molester was an Arab. Should we now assume all Arabs like to molest little boys too???

3. This story does make me sick. There are very sick people in the world who do unthinkable things. We should find them, and either rehabilitate them
or keep them locked away where they cannot hurt others. I think everyone in the world shares certain beliefs. Sex with children is wrong, stealing is
wrong, murder, etc. (except for those who commit these acts of course)

We cannot go around saying any philosophy, religion, belief system, culture, etc is responsible or condones such behaviors. Otherwise the Catholic
Church needs to be brought down for their cover up of thousands of cases of child molestation. One could also make the case that the whole idea of
priesthood in the catholic church is the problem for them in the first place. No sex, no wife, it just seems so unnatural and not the way G-d
intended. But I am not making a case against the Catholic church, its just the easiest example to use (which says something in itself).

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